Tobacco-pouch



Patented Feb. l4, I899.

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NITED STATES PATENT TOBACCO-POUCH.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 619,588, dated February 14, 1899.

Application filed February 4, 1898. Serial No. 669,058. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM NILES LooK- WOOD, of Concord, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tobacco-Pouches, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a cheap, simple, and convenient tobacco-pouch adapted to retain the contained tobaccoproperly moist, and to this end Iprovide the pouch with a receptacle adapted to receive a moistened sponge or other suitable absorbent material.

Figure 1 is a cross-sectional View of one form of tobacco-pouch embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view thereof, partially broken out to show the construction of the receptacle for absorbent material; and Fig. 3 is an elevation of another form of pouch opened and partially broken out to show the construction.

Both forms of pouch herein shown are wellknown and are made of thin india-rubber or equivalent material, the one shown in Figs. 1 and 2 having an annular body portion A and a crimped or folded neck A, while the pouch shown in Fig. 3 consists of two open pockets D D, connected at one edge in such manner that the pocket containing the tobacco may be turned into the other.

In carrying out my invention I apply a thin, preferably disk-like, piece of rubber or to the bottom of the body portion A of the one style of pouch or to the wall of one of the pockets, as at d, Fig. 3. Around its edge for the greater portion of its length the additional ply or disk is vulcanized to the main portion of the pouch, as at a Figs. 1 and 2, and (1 Fig. 33, leaving an unconnected lip a or d in the two forms shown. This portion of the auxiliary ply unconnected With the pouch forms a mouth or opening, through which a piece of moistened sponge or other suitable absorbent material 8 may be inserted, as

shown in Fig. 1. The inner wall of the receptacle formed by the auxiliary ply is perforated, as at a or CF, as the case may be, so that the vapor from the moistened absorbent material will permeate the tobacco in the pouch and keep it properly moist.

In the form shown in Fig. 3 the absorbent material may be moistened when necessary by merely exposing the mouth of the absorbent-receptacle and pouring in a proper quantity of Water or other fluid.

- By untwisting the neck A, Fig. 1, the mouth of the receptacle may be exposed for a like purpose.

It will be seen that the flexibility of the pouch is not in the least altered by the application thereto of my invention, and the con struction is exceedingly simple and cheap and thoroughly efiective.

My invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement shown and described, as the same may be modified with out departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-

1. A tobacco-pouch, constructed of flexible material, such as rubber, and havinga moisteningreceptacle, perforated internally to communicate with the interior of the pouch and provided with an unconnected portion forming an open mouth to admit the moistening agent, the said receptacle being also of flexible material throughout, substantially as described.

2. In a flexible tobacco-pouch, an auxiliary, perforated ply of flexible material attached along a portion of its edge to the inner surface of the pouch, to form a receptacle therein having an open mouth, substantially as described. I

3. In a flexible rubber tobacco-pouch,a perforated ply of thin rubber vulcanized along a portion of its edge to the inner surface of the pouch, to form a receptacle therein having a mouth, substantially as described.

4. A flexible rubber tobacco-pouch having a double bottom, formed by an inner ply or flap, to constitute a chamber, the inner ply being perforated and disconnected from the outer ply along a portion of its edge, to form a mouth, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

l/VILLIAM NILES LOCKWOOD.

Witnesses:

JOHN C. EDWARDS, AUGUSTA E. DEAN. 

